Scam Calls from Area Code 781

Area code 781, a Massachusetts geographic code with reported activity also touching Florida and California, has generated 701 complaints across 255 numbers since February 2026, with complaints still arriving as of June 2026. Specific locations tied to this activity include Salisbury, Stoughton, South Weymouth, and Hingham in Massachusetts, as well as San Diego, California. At rank 246 out of 358 area codes overall, the raw volume is not extreme nationally, but among its 47 peer codes it sits at rank 35, placing it in the more active tier of that comparison group.

The two highest-complaint numbers in the code, 781-989-1000 with 51 complaints and 781-694-9000 with 42, carry no category classification but together account for nearly 100 complaints on their own. The third-busiest number, 781-566-8000, draws 31 complaints and falls under impersonation of government, businesses, or family and friends, the second-largest named category in the code at 89 total complaints. Debt-reduction pitches targeting credit cards, mortgages, and student loans follow closely at 86 complaints, making those two categories the dominant substantive threat vectors here.

Dropped calls and silent connections lead all categories at 102 complaints, a pattern consistent with robodialers probing for live recipients before routing to a live agent or recorded pitch. FCC records in this code confirm 98 live-agent contacts and 68 prerecorded messages, with 6 abandoned calls, suggesting that the silent-call volume feeds a mixed infrastructure where both human and automated delivery are in active use.

Smaller but notable clusters include 27 complaints in energy, solar, and utilities, with 781-989-9488 accounting for 9 of those, and 22 complaints in medical and prescriptions. Numbers 781-365-5782, 781-382-1000, 781-523-8000, and 781-656-9000 each carry between 7 and 13 complaints without a named category, meaning a meaningful slice of this code's activity has not yet resolved into a clear scam type.

The ongoing status of complaints through June 2026, combined with the concentration of high-volume uncategorized numbers and an active impersonation cluster, suggests that 781 is being used as a spoofed or operational base for campaigns that are still evolving in method. The debt-reduction and impersonation categories running nearly neck and neck indicates this is not a single-purpose operation, and the reach into California and Florida points to call infrastructure that extends well beyond the code's Massachusetts geography.